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August 25, 2016
Samsung's Note 7 Pen Functions Are Still Searching For A Raison D'être
The newly added pen functions are interesting, but overall the pen seems to be searching for clear use cases.
The newly added pen functions are interesting, but overall the pen seems to be searching for clear use cases.
This is the third in a three-part series reviewing Samsung's important new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. The first part concerned the device's design. The second concerned the device's new iris scanner.
Are Hollywood Blockbusters Worse This Year? Not Really.
In a summer of Suicide Squad and Ben-Hur, it can feel like big-budget popcorn flicks have never been more awful. They have.
In a summer of Suicide Squad and Ben-Hur, it can feel like big-budget popcorn flicks have never been more awful. They have.
To hear the curmudgeons and film snobs tell it, the summer of 2016 has churned out some of the most soul-crushingly awful Hollywood blockbusters in recent memory—from the superhero anti-epic Suicide Squad to the dead-on-arrival sequel to Independence Day. By the time the laughable Ben-Hur limped into multiplexes last weekend, the narrative had been solidified: The latest summer blockbuster season has been an exceptionally terrible one.
Apple Music: Can Apple Outgrow Its "Lame Dad" Vibe?
Apple Music is betting on smart curation, big names & hip partners to make us forget the U2 album debacle.
Apple Music is betting on smart curation, big names & hip partners to make us forget the U2 album debacle.
September 9, 2014 was a pivotal day for Apple. On stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino, the company's executives proudly revealed sleek, media-ready renderings of new gadgets, marking Apple's biggest product lineup refresh in years: two new and bigger iPhones, a long-rumored smart watch, and Apple Pay, the company's first foray into wireless mobile payments. As the two-hour flurry of announcements wound down, Apple CEO Tim Cook borrowed his predecessor's "one more thing" schtick, albeit without uttering those exact words.
Where Clinton And Trump Stand On Cybersecurity And Privacy
Clinton generally favors continuing Obama's cyber policies, while Trump calls for more cyber warfare and surveillance.
Clinton generally favors continuing Obama's cyber policies, while Trump calls for more cyber warfare and surveillance.
From alleged Russian attacks on Democratic National Committee servers and the vulnerability of Hillary Clinton's emails to the ongoing debate over law enforcement access to encrypted data, cybersecurity and related privacy issues have become part of the presidential election cycle like never before.
Did West Elm Rip Off These Midcentury Masters?
The line between paying homage to a design classic and outright piracy is fuzzy.
The line between paying homage to a design classic and outright piracy is fuzzy.
Recently, the furniture giant West Elm and the L.A.–based design studio Commune released a collection of furniture and accessories with a midcentury-inspired sensibility. But as some bloggers were quick to point out, the "midcentury-inspired" looked more like a midcentury rip-off. The ensuing debate has raised pertinent questions about design plagiarism: Where do you draw the line between paying homage to a design classic and copying it? How close is too close?
The Long-Term Memory Hack That Can Grow Your Network And Business
That hiring manager or business partner may not be ready to act, but you'll want them to remember you when they are.
That hiring manager or business partner may not be ready to act, but you'll want them to remember you when they are.
Entrepreneurs and job seekers both live or die by the relationships they build—with new clients, contacts, recruits, investors, and partners. But as any successful relationship builder can tell you, timing isn't always on your side: Your dream client may not have the budget for your services right now, or maybe a strong candidate for a senior position just had a baby and isn't ready for a move to a new company yet.
6 Things You're Doing That You'll Seriously Regret In 10 Years
Sure, they seem like no big deal now. But be careful of these key areas of future regret.
Sure, they seem like no big deal now. But be careful of these key areas of future regret.
Scrolling through my social media feed, I noticed a college friend's photograph of his son's dormitory. My friend and I had been thick as thieves during our undergraduate years, and now his son was leaving home, and roughly the age his father was when he and I first met.
Every Data Science Interview Boiled Down To Five Basic Questions
Data science interviews are notoriously complex, but most of what they throw at you will fall into one of these categories.
Data science interviews are notoriously complex, but most of what they throw at you will fall into one of these categories.
Data science interviews are daunting, complicated gauntlets for many. But despite the ways they're evolving, the technical portion of the typical data science interview tends to be pretty predictable. The questions most candidates face usually cover behavior, mathematics, statistics, coding, and scenarios. However they differ in their particulars, those questions may be easier to answer if you can identify which bucket each one falls into. Here's a breakdown, and what you can do to prepare.
Why I Started Training Employees To Leave Their Jobs
If you want to retain your star employees, says Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes, help them try out new roles inside the company.
If you want to retain your star employees, says Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes, help them try out new roles inside the company.
A new analysis of LinkedIn data confirms what HR managers have long suspected: Millennials change jobs—a lot. Workers in the job force's youngest demographic switch employers an average of once every 2.5 years during their first decade out of college, twice the rate of their gen X predecessors. And these days, candidates aren't just switching jobs, they're often switching entire industries.
You Should Probably Ignore Your Friends' And Family's Career Advice
Unless Aunt Brenda is a professional career coach, you should take her advice with a grain of salt.
Unless Aunt Brenda is a professional career coach, you should take her advice with a grain of salt.
For most of us, our first experience with career advice comes from one source: our parents. As we go through life, the people who have the most interest in the direction we take with our careers continue to be those who are closest to us, like our significant others, friends, mentors, and professors.
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